Fricken

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by Fricken 6d ago
"With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water and he's like... yeah, he's sure he can control the demon, [but] it doesn&
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by Fricken 7d ago
Hospitals at the dawn of the 19th century in Europe were generally places only poor people in desperate situations went to give birth because they were hives of disease transmission. The notion that doctors should wash their hands between
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by Fricken 7d ago
Scandanavians have been getting around without cars for millenia. Nobody had even heard of a car until just over a century ago. Car dependent infrastructure is definitely not helpful for the physically disabled, as well as those too young,
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by Fricken 8d ago
"Stunning and Brave" is the episode in which PC Principal makes his debut, at the start of season 19.
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by Fricken 9d ago
>Musk has said his critics “cannot cite a single name of someone who died” and “If there were, it would be worldwide headline news!” When confronted with the names – including those of children who died because of the cuts – Musk called
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by Fricken 11d ago
I hiked that trail on August 10, 2019, and after coming down from the summit I bivvied on the shoulder of Habrich just below the sugar-lump shaped granite summit. Coincidentally the night I slept up there was the same night the Sea-to-Sky
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by Fricken 12d ago
Her personal example was odd, but there are many other valid examples of destructive impulses cited by her (and Poe) in the essay
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by Fricken 13d ago
You can just pull tokens out of a bag to generate a random sequence of virtually any length. Am I missing something? Why make it so complicated?
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The Nerd Reich wants to 'destroy' democracy, and it's mask has slipped(abc.net.au)
25 points by Fricken 14d ago|13 comments
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by Fricken 14d ago
>The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous prese
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by Fricken 15d ago
Idiocracy is a fable about our time. Setting his story in the future helps Mike Judge to maintain plausible deniability, but the movie is there to validate your sneaking suspicion that everything is kind of stupid.
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by Fricken 18d ago
Are we in prison? What is it we're hoping to escape from when we achieve technological escape velocity?
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by Fricken 18d ago
Technological advancement needs to advance towards being sustainable or else it's a joke.
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by Fricken 19d ago
We're acting against our own evolutionary fitness function. Human nature is against human nature.
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by Fricken 20d ago
It looks great. I'm conventionally a critic of the pursuit of realism in games, particularly with faces, because of the uncanny valley, but the faces look great. They're not uncanny. GTA VI is the biggest single entertainment prop
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by Fricken 20d ago
Supply and demand. I could expound upon that but why bother when you can just google it?
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by Fricken 20d ago
I go around with the general awareness that about 200k people die every day. I know that disasters and tragedies happen around the world on a regular basis. I know that cameras are nearly ubiquitous even in the developing world, so there is
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by Fricken 20d ago
The only reason any of us can read is because industrialists a long time ago decided we would be more productive if we would. The labour standards in the US today established by FDR and the New Deal were done under duress, with a very popul
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by Fricken 20d ago
In the US it's a supply and demand problem. America chose redlining. White flight. More cars, less public transit. They largely stopped building desireable new mixed use medium density neighbourhoods after WW2.
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by Fricken 22d ago
The article links to a report from the library of congress, from which it gets it's numbers. The congressional report is quite informative, and and non-partisan. https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R49057
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by Fricken 22d ago
2-3°C of warming by 2050, 4-5°C by 2100. There's no rule saying it will stop there. https://www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentlichungen/publikationen/...
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by Fricken 22d ago
From the perspective of our evolutionary fitness function the most critical thing is to eliminate existential risk, and from the dawn of the industrial revolution to now all we've done is create them. Fossil Fuels allow us to keep 8 bi
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by Fricken 23d ago
Everybody alive today will die. We're mortal, that's just how it goes. So with or without fossil fuels, billions of people will die regardless, that much is baked in. It's a moot point. As a species, however, we can persist
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by Fricken 24d ago
"A Trip to the Moon" is what ruined it for me.
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by Fricken 26d ago
Yes, he wrote the original short story and also the screenplay for the film.
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by Fricken 26d ago
Johnny Mneumonic (1995), set in the mid 2020s, depicts Beijing as the global epicentre of power and wealth. Much of the action is set in Newark New Jersey, a dystopian hellscape where civil order has broken down.
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by Fricken 26d ago
I could show up at your doorstep, declare myself at your service, and then spend the rest of my days catering to your every beck and whim. There's no law against that. Can it even be slavery if it's voluntary?
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by Fricken 29d ago
Facebook is legal, like alcohol. People drive drunk and kill people. People drive while using facebook and kill people as well.
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by Fricken 29d ago
Elite cyclists are all about maximizing their sugar intake. The more sugar their bodies absorb the better they perform. They chug liquid sugar until they puke, and then drink some more. It trains their guts to absorb more sugar.
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by Fricken 1mo ago
https://youtu.be/YTWqVk03eb0?si=3NW5xcGcqvY1etxM&t=427

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